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Boas Pucker

@bpucker.bsky.social
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Prof. @unibonn.bsky.social‬. Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (@puckerlab.bsky.social). #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Evolution #SpecializedMetabolism #MolecularBiology #Pigmentation #Flavonoids. Website: www.pbb.uni-bonn.de. Views are my own.

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Human design or AI-generated? 🤖🎨 With AI-generated images everywhere, we get this question a lot! The figures in our publications are designed by a talented human: Marie. 🌱✨✏️🧠🌿 👉 See her work: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/mh 📖 Example: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... #SciArt #SciComm @puckerlab.bsky.social
Pathway illustration for the anthocyanin and carotenoid biosynthesis. Figure source and details: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136.
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Human design or AI-generated? 🤖🎨 With AI-generated images everywhere, we get this question a lot! The figures in our publications are designed by a talented human: Marie. 🌱✨✏️🧠🌿 👉 See her work: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/mh 📖 Example: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... #SciArt #SciComm @puckerlab.bsky.social
Pathway illustration for the anthocyanin and carotenoid biosynthesis. Figure source and details: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136.
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution
Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution
Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Julie just completed sequencing run 200 on our PromethION @puckerlab.bsky.social . Time to celebrate numerous successful plant genomics projects and to look for new challenges! www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #PlantGenomics #Bioinformatics #LongReads
Julie and P2 Solo
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Review paper What we know, what we assume + what remains unknown from anthocyanin research. By @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social, N. Khatun, and @bpucker.bsky.social Read more #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
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Almost 200 years of anthocyanin research: What we know, what we assume and what remains unknown
Nearly 200 years of anthocyanin research reveal a well-understood anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway. However, there are still open questions regarding its evolution, functions and ecological significa...
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Activation of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Utricularia gibba depends on nitrogen starvation and light exposure #FlavonoidFriday doi.org/10.64898/202... & shorturl.at/Be9T2
Utricularia gibba traps exhibiting red coloration, presumably due to anthocyanin accumulation. Reference: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Next Botanik-Tagung is going to take place in Göttingen. Looking forward to the next meeting. Thank you, @jandevries.bsky.social ! #BT2028 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Many thanks to Christopher Grefen and his team for organizing an amazing @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ralph Bock is talking about genome transfer in evolution, breeding, and synthetic biology #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Good news: Amanda and Katharina just won poster prizes for their amazing work on MYB transcription factors and pigment biosynthesis at #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026 @puckerlab.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de @unibonn.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kirsten Krause is talking about plant interactions, especially parasitic plants #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Asaph Aharoni starts the last day of #BT2026 with a keynote lecture about root exudation and biotic interaction #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fernando Geu-Flores starts the session with a talk about specialized metabolism in lupin #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The time has come. Please join the session in HZO 30 to learn about the pigment evolution in Cucurbitaceae #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to Paul Grünhofer and Sarina Niedzwiez for winning the Horst Wiehe Prize #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jaccoline Zegers receives the Pfeffer Award 2026 for her excellent work on evolutionary conservation of hyperosmotic response #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Best Paper Prize 2025 by the Wilhelm Pfeffer foundation is awarded to Sara Leite Dias, Ling Chuang, and Shenyu Liu #BT2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Strasburger Award 2026 goes to Michelle Rönspies for her outstanding work on CRISPR-Cas-mediated chromosome fusion in A. thaliana #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here is a picture of @puckerlab.bsky.social at #Botanik-Tagung2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social #BT2026 #Genomics #Evolution #PlantScience @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
PuckerLab at Botanik-Tagung 2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Laura Lagomarsino is talking about the evolution of plants in the Andes #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Luke Bell is starting the day with a talk about secondary metabolism, climate resilience, and human nutrition #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Nancy Choudhary @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Having a great time at the Botanik-Tagung 2026 in Bochum! I’ll be presenting my work on Cucurbitaceae tomorrow (09.09.2026) at 16:30. Looking forward to an interesting discussion! #BT2026 #PlantScience #SpecializedMetabolism #PlantPigments #Anthocyanins #Carotenoids #Evolution #Cucurbitaceae
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Interested in full plasmid sequencing? Ask Julie about it. Next poster session: today at 9am. #BT2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you are interested in the genome sequence collection that Jakob announced, please get in touch
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interested in long read sequencing of plant genomes? Visit Julie at her poster to learn how it is done and what is possible today #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026 #genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The evolutionary biology session is starting at #Botanik-Tagung2026. Join to learn about the fascinating mechanisms that shape(d) plants #BT2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Second day of #Botanik-Tagung2026 starts with a talk by Katie Field about mycorrhiza #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please remember to visit our group members at their posters and attend their talks #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ute Krämer is wrapping up the first day of the conference with a lecture about plant adaption to heavy metal #BT2026 #Botanik-Tagung2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Integrative Approaches in Phylogenomics & Biodiversity Research is starting at #Botanik-Tagung2026 #BT2026
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Please submit comments to the EU Commission’s Call for Evidence on how to implement the new rules for "Plants obtained by new genomic techniques (#NGT)". Submission deadline 28 Sept. Below what I submitted. #plantscience ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
First keynote lecture by Dominique Bergmann about stomata looking across plant species #BT2026 @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Many thanks to the amazing organizing team. Already a very promising start. Looking forward to exciting days! #BT2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Andreas Weber is kicking off #BT2026 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de with very important messages about the roles of communities for excellent science @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Arrived @ruhr-uni-bochum.de for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Botanik-Tagung 2026. Looking forward to inspiring discussions and a great time in Bochum with @puckerlab.bsky.social #BT2026 #PlantSciences
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PuckerLab @puckerlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We are excited to share our research at Botanik-Tagung 2026. Looking forward to inspiring discussions and a great time in Bochum! www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #BT2026 #PlantSciences @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
Title slides of two PBB talks that are going to be given by Nancy Choudhary and Jakob Horz at Botanik-Tagung 2026. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#BT2026
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here is an update on our nanopore sequencing activities showing the output per flow cell: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... The data are mostly from plant DNA, with some microbial genomes also included. #LongReads #Genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social
Sequencing output per flow cell. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#P2OS
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PuckerLab @puckerlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Are you interested in gene expression? We have just released PanXpresso - a large collection of precomputed gene expression datasets for plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and archaea: doi.org/10.64898/202... #RNAseq #Transcriptomics #Python @shakunthalan.bsky.social @bpucker.bsky.social
Phylogenetic tree showing the distribution of gene expression datasets across plant families. Source: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747620
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why could this be useful? We see cross-species coexpression (as implemented in CoExpPhylo) as a very powerful tool for future discoveries in the specialized plant metabolism, but you need big data to run it: doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today is the day! Your chance to learn about synthetic biology (iGEM). We will be sharing our experiences at 6 pm in SR2.007 (IZMB, Kirschallee 1). Interested students from the University of Bonn are invited! Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/igem @puckerlab.bsky.social @igembonn.bsky.social
Illustration showing an iGEM team at work. Partially generated with AI support.
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We went on a boat trip to collect samples of aquatic carnivorous plants (Utricularia). Excited to learn more about these fascinating plants? Check out our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantSciences #Genomics #TeamWork @puckerlab.bsky.social
PuckerLab boat trip 2026. Details about our research: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today is the day! Your chance to learn about synthetic biology (iGEM). We will be sharing our experiences at 6 pm in SR2.007 (IZMB, Kirschallee 1). Interested students from the University of Bonn are invited! Details: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/igem @puckerlab.bsky.social @igembonn.bsky.social
Illustration showing an iGEM team at work. Partially generated with AI support.
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Presentation at #Quest4Orthologues on DupyliCate from Shakunthala Natarajan, from lab of @bpucker.bsky.social, ERGA Council member for Germany @ergabiodiv.bsky.social
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We went on a boat trip to collect samples of aquatic carnivorous plants (Utricularia). Excited to learn more about these fascinating plants? Check out our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #PlantSciences #Genomics #TeamWork @puckerlab.bsky.social
PuckerLab boat trip 2026. Details about our research: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Having a busy day? Julie’s latest work might be just the thing to calm things down. 🌿 Genome sequence and annotation of Valeriana officinalis doi.org/10.64898/202... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @opensciene-unibonn.bsky.social
A: Valeriana officinalis, Bonn University Botanic Gardens. B: Close-up of V. officinalis flowers. Source: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.14.744958
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Having a busy day? Julie’s latest work might be just the thing to calm things down. 🌿 Genome sequence and annotation of Valeriana officinalis doi.org/10.64898/202... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #PlantSciences @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @opensciene-unibonn.bsky.social
A: Valeriana officinalis, Bonn University Botanic Gardens. B: Close-up of V. officinalis flowers. Source: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.14.744958
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🧬 Want to get started with bioinformatics and the command line? Join our de.NBI training course “CLI Basics for Life Scientists” in Bonn! www.denbi.de/training-cou... #Bioinformatics #Bonn #CloudComputing @puckerlab.bsky.social @denbi.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
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CLI Basics for Life Scientists
The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure – de.NBI' is a national, academic and non-profit infrastructure supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research providing bioinformati...
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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
More information about this upcoming course on our website: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Bioinformatics #CloudComputing #Genomics #CLI @puckerlab.bsky.social @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social
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